Information Technology and Global Interdependence

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While considerable attention has been focused on how information technologies (IT) are affecting particular industrialized nations, the broader implications of the "information revolution" have begun to be appreciated only in the past few years. This volume represents a first step in understanding the global impact of these technological advances. Based on a series of recent conferences, it distills the collective wisdom of an international group of some 40 specialists in communications, trade, finance, development and diplomacy. The authors identify the potential repercussions arising from the worldwide dissemination of IT and explore the adjustments and collective responses that may help to maximize benefits and reduce harmful effects.

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This pioneering work was published under the auspices of the East-West Centre of Honolulu and the Japan Institute of International Affairs and is based on recent international conferences. This book helps show the global impact of the growth of information technology in such related fields as banking, finance, trade. Legal and socio-cultural issues are analysed by the co-authors. Some 40 specialists in communications, development, diplomacy, finance, investment institutions and trade describe the potential consequences of information technology and outline proposals to help obtain benefits and avoid negative effects. They provide helpful insights for communicators in the developing and developed nations.-Media Development
This volume represents an important first step in understanding and coming to terms with the global impact of advances in the field of information technology (IT). It distills the collective wisdom of an international group of some 40 specialists in communications, trade, finance, development and diplomacy. The authors identify the potential repercussions arising from the worldwide dissemination of IT and explore the adjustments and collective responses that may help to maximize benefits and reduce harmful effects.-Transnational Data and Communications Report
"This volume represents an important first step in understanding and coming to terms with the global impact of advances in the field of information technology (IT). It distills the collective wisdom of an international group of some 40 specialists in communications, trade, finance, development and diplomacy. The authors identify the potential repercussions arising from the worldwide dissemination of IT and explore the adjustments and collective responses that may help to maximize benefits and reduce harmful effects."-Transnational Data and Communications Report
"This pioneering work was published under the auspices of the East-West Centre of Honolulu and the Japan Institute of International Affairs and is based on recent international conferences. This book helps show the global impact of the growth of information technology in such related fields as banking, finance, trade. Legal and socio-cultural issues are analysed by the co-authors. Some 40 specialists in communications, development, diplomacy, finance, investment institutions and trade describe the potential consequences of information technology and outline proposals to help obtain benefits and avoid negative effects. They provide helpful insights for communicators in the developing and developed nations."-Media Development

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MEHEROO JUSSAWALLA is Research Economist with the Institute of Culture and Communication at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. She is the author of Communications Economics and Development and Communication and Information Economics: New Perspectives, the co-compiler of Telecommunications Economics and International Regulatory Policy: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood Press, 1986), The Calculus of International Communications, and has written numerous related articles. TADAYUKI OKUMA is Senior Research Fellow in the Japan Institute of International Affairs and a member of the Japanese Committee for TIDE 2000. TOSHIHIRO ARAKI is with the Division of North American Affairs in the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a member of the Japanese Committee for TIDE 2000.